John Podhoretz Quotes
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.
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Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
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When you work in television, you're in the writer's room all the time.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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Someone has to stand up for wimps.
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I've made the decision not to do radio anymore.
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I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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You can do more, you can always do more.
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As I wrote about my childhood, I realized that there was no big tragedy. Being multiethnic is not a tragedy. I didn't have any big life-threatening illnesses, no tumors, no kidney malfunctions... I came from a very poor family. I was chubby as a kid.
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Football tactics are rapidly becoming as complicated as the chemical formula for splitting the atom.
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Democracies are expense-averse and they think in terms of short-term, political interests rather than a long-term interest in stability.
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Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.
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One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another, so I said. . . But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.
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Obama's victory in November 2008 was a historic political accomplishment.
